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Perceived stock worth for employees is highly correlated with liquidity - and there is almost no liquidity for most of european startup stocks.

Even in the great local success stories IPO's are not the goal, and the employee-stock of a successful company is practically useless, as you can't really sell it when you want to (no buyers unless the company itself is sold) and there will be no dividends in the foreseeable future, as all profits are reinvested in growth.

0.1% in a billion-worth company should be a life-changing financial event, winning the "startup lottery" by working your ass off to build a great product from nothing. But what good is it if you can't use it to buy a car or a house? It's just paper.
> With one single standardized language we have fragmentation across browsers which sometimes causes problems. Allowing arbitrary languages would be a nightmare.

I'm not sure about that.

One thing i really dislike about web development is that it's so unnecessary complicated to say "i want to use ECMASript 5 for this web page" and then let the browser decide what to do, either just stupidly show an error message, or, more intelligently, download the necessary components to make ECMAScript 5 work, kind of what a package manager would do. If the web would have been polyglot from the start (in the scripting language side), i think it's not far fetched to imagine that browsers could have adopted a similar approach to the later one.

Really, i feel it's really stupid that we've been fallen into this "beware, <browser X> doesn't support Array::map!" trap, instead of "how silly, Array::map didn't exist because i didn't mark my <script> tag with language=ecmascript5, now it does :)". I can't but feel that Only One Scripting Language to Rule Them All mentality brought us here.

But anyway, the What Would Have Happened If won't take us anywhere. The decision for us to make is: do we embrace a polyglot/package managed like architecture now, or do we continue with (re)standardising the one and only web scripting language?
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A lot of people forward their email through gmail account exactly because of this feature - to filter out spam, since gmail filter is one of the best.
If Alice and Bob agree to run their own SMTP daemons, closed to the public and not necessarily on port 25, and they each agree to put the other on their "whitelist", how is this functionally different from the current third party controlled system? Answer: 1. Immediate delivery, assuming Bob and Alice keep their machines online. 2. No spam. 3. No third parties exerting control over their mail. No idiosyncratic delivery policies.

I'm afraid there's no need to convince any provider of anything. At this point, Alice and Bob are sending and receiving email without the need for any third party "email provider".

Functionally blacklists and whitelists are the same. They both have the same goal. But they are not the same in their effect. Blacklisting an entire netblock to stop one bad IP address affects many IP addresses who do not need to be blocked. Whitelisting a single known IP address does not have that side effect. For Alice and Bob, handling their own messages may be a desired option. Of course, not everyone may follow Alice and Bob's example. But who cares? The population using email is enormous and diverse. The point is that if someone wants a better solution than what "email providers" offer, she can get it.
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One of my favorite tricks was binding @q to <space>. It really speeds up playback so I don't need to necessarily count occurrences or go recursive.
Jetbrains are changing their platform to use native font rendering.

From their blog:
"default look and feel on Linux changed from GTK+ to Alloy IDEA – it uses system fonts and has a much better overall quality (worth to try for current users too)"
https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
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Agree with that, a point I was trying to make. I have not compared the statistics though for US vs Europe. There are more liquidity events in the US, but there are also more startups.
For some numbers, Jay Weintraub had a good blog post on exit statistics a few weeks ago:
http://www.jayweintraub.com/2012/09/the-vast-majority-of-sta...
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Gotta love that Spamhaus logic. Spammers use cheap dynamic IP's therefore anyone with a cheap dynamic IP that sends an email is a spammer.

Is it cheaper for you to get a static IP from a VPS than from your ISP?
If fraud is discovered, it should always lead to a retraction. Errors, on the other hand, are part of the scientific process. Often, the correct response is just to publish another paper.
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What? No it doesn't. When people say "No bare ankles or shoulders", that doesn't mean it's ok if you bare both of them.
No seeders on your favorite torrent site?

Edit: Just realized that you're the anti-streaming guy from above. Here's the deal: $10 a moth is reasonable for me considering the amount of music that I listen too. If I had to purchase the music to listen to it I would go back to torrents. I can't afford to spend $100-200+ a month on music. And that's what it would cost with digital downloads or CDs ordered online. If I were to buy it in my country I would have to shell out up to $25 for a CD. That would mean that I had spend $500 so I can keep my music habits. That is about the median household income here.
You seem to be mixing up several different levels of caching. Firstly, instructions are primarily fit in the instruction cache, not the data cache.

Secondly, there is no signifcant address translation overhead and the os doesn't need to do any decision making (or well, it does, but it is cached in the TLB and code TLBs are so efficienct nowadays that you can expect the cost to be null) so long as the resident set fits in the main ram -- whether it fits in the cache or not is irrelevant.

Thirdly, just how does the disklessness of the system have any influence? I am not entirely sure but it seems you are somehow mixing up the page cache and the CPU cache, which are completely different things.
By IDE, do you mean Color Forth? Are you using Color Forth? If that's totally wrong, could you talk more about the IDE anyway?
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Yes, please write this! I'd normally just upvote your comment, but I feel like the sorts of people who play around with GreenArray chips are not that prone to blogging, at least by my googling...
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I've seen the inverse of this, though. For example, I estimated it would take me a couple days to do finish one part of a project, but I told the PM one week. She in turn multiplied it by 3 when she actually turned in the project schedule. So at the end I was given 3 weeks for an estimated 2 day task.
Use a Google Apps account to host mx for all the domains, no need to use forwarders. It's what I do.
I had someone forge my AOL email address into the headers somewhere around 1999 and send out lots of spam.

A "vigilante" confronted me on AIM, we chatted about it, and he's now one of my best friends.

Not that you want it happening, just an anecdote.
Bit-aligned instructions are a really horrible idea if you ever want to make a CPU implementing that instruction set actually fast. When you want to decode multiple instructions in parallel, having more possible locations for the beginning of the next instruction adds a lot of latency and power on a very critical path. Getting more cache to fit instructions and more bandwidth from it to the cpu is a problem that can be solved by Moore's law, having to put more muxes in front of your decoder isn't, now that Moore's law just buys you more transistors and less power, but not faster transistors.

x86 is now considered to be extremely hard to decode because it's byte-aligned instructions, and basically all modern instruction sets prefer fixed-width instructions. ARM used to tout how space-efficient it's THUMB-2/ARMv7 instruction set was compared to other RISC instruction sets because it had 2 possible instruction lengths (16b and 32b), but now that they got to (had to) reboot the ISA for 64-bit, ARMv8 is fixed-width.
I keep saying this on HN, but I'll say it again: Equity is not tasty.

Now freelancing for startups, that's a whole different ball game. All of the realistic benefits, none of the risk.
From what I've been told the European laws made establishing anything but the SARL/Gmbh (LLC equivalients) a fairly complicated deal up until recently. And this sort of company restricts share sales only to family (?), but not to the employees and not in a staright-forward fashion. In recent years though the laws has changed, and so setting up SA (Inc equivalents) is much simpler now.
I don't, but nor do I use GMail or Hangouts at an enterprise (and this is a place that uses Yammer extensively). I would be surprised if many of the kind of enterprises the author is thinking of did, so I don't think the potential the author sees is really there.
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If your company's "most precious resource" is capital and not equity, that's indicating that you are expecting to fail. Equity is already far more risky than a salary in companies that think they'll succeed. I hope you are successful, but I think you might need a pivot or two on this idea.
I genuinely didn't, and am quite surprised. What about itunes? Do they just not bother selling to android users?
I feel that's a bit like saying a heavyweight boxer and a lightweight boxer are competitors
git-bisect is the standard tool for figuring out where you broke something. I don't know what it does with branching histories though, I tend to effectively linearise my history by rebasing each branch on the trunk head before merging it.
Sorry about the Linkedin one (it was partially mine, and other like me's, fault).

You see, I signed up for many Linkedin groups and then realised that they were sending me too many emails. I removed all of the emails in Linkedin and then found that this would take at least a week before I stopped getting the emails. I waited two weeks, the emails had not stopped and so I classified them as spam.

The issue is that Google is using collaborative filtering, which will tend to weight such emails more highly as spam given that I and others have noted them as spam. Its normally quite effective, but you do need to check your spam box quite often. This isn't because the algorithm doesnt work, its just because of noise created by people using the spam button inappropriately for your use cases.
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> From what I've been told the European laws made establishing anything but the SARL/Gmbh (LLC equivalients) a fairly complicated deal up until recently

That's still plenty complicated in many countries - Italy, for instance, although we did manage to improve things just a little tiny bit:

http://www.governo.it/Notizie/Presidenza/dettaglio.asp?d=690...
I'd like to see these numbers expressed as a percentage of total publications. While fraud, etc. may be on the rise in terms of absolute numbers, perhaps a better question is whether the rate is also rising or if this is just the effect of an ever-increasing number of publications per year.
How the hell does that fall under copyright?

The "only to be sold in country X" effectively tries to be an agreement in which geographic locations certain items can be sold. No copies are involved and no copies are made. Copyright controls, well, the right to make copies. Reselling shouldn't have anything to do with copyright.

(Note that those warnings that try to be artificial restrictions are deep from the arse. They deliberately try to prevent the market from working for the benefit of one company.)
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Abstract of the article:

A detailed review of all 2,047 biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%). Incomplete, uninformative or misleading retraction announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of fraud in the ongoing retraction epidemic. The percentage of scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased ∼10-fold since 1975. Retractions exhibit distinctive temporal and geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes.

In general (Table 1) Retractions are not strongly related to Journal prestige, which was interesting to me. The Nature Neuroscience, Neuron and Journal of Neuroscience do not feature in the list, which, in my eyes, raises their prestige, or point to fraud in Neuroscience being harder to detect.

A side note: In the paper the authors use 3D pie charts with a bad color scheme (Fig 2. breakup by country). No percentages are given. Please don't do this folks, we're professionals here, not the sales dept.

One clarification to the blog post: it mentions duplication, which in science I consider a very good thing. I wish there were more papers that said 'we replicated your finding, thereby increasing it's credibility'. The paper authors refer to duplicate publication, which means taking the same paper and submitting it repeatedly to several journals to increase publications. A dishonest thing not from a scientific data point of view, but a scientific credit point of view.
I joined a promising startup 18 months ago as the 3rd developer, employee #6, and was promised vast riches in the very near future. I was promised a decent amount of preferred stock options which 'would make me rich', and joined on a salary about £15k less than I could have earned at an established company down the road.

Over the next few months, while the company size went from 6 to 20, and the board were organising the stock options scheme, I was still highly motivated by the favourable options which had yet to be sorted out. A year in, and I was given a very very small fraction of the 11% option pool, which would amount to less than 0.1% of the total shares, which was also subject to dilution. At this point I had all of the speculation previously made by my superiors denied, my importance to the company was downgraded, and I struggled to negotiate a raise in salary that would bring me up to what I'd call an average salary.

This whole procedure was very demoralising, I would have been happy with no options and a decent salary to start with, and all of the speculation of how many billions the company would get acquired for in a years' time would not have bothered me in the slightest. After all, we had no customers, had not launched a product, and I was a key developer. Needless to say I left shortly after to start my own company.

When I left, they offered to 'do something' about the options and give me the raise I wanted, but at that point for me the damage had been done, and I no longer had the ambition to work there. I didn't execute any of the options that had already vested, and used this £300 to start my business.

From my own experience and speaking with a lot of other startup employees in the UK, I believe we care more about the starting salary, and absolutely have to treat options as a bonus. Not only because of the dampened IPO/acquisition outlook in Europe, which i think many startup employees are unaware of, but because startups are a smaller part of our economy. In London for example, 'Tech City' is right next to THE city, where my friends work. You've got guys earning nothing at a startup, working and meeting for drinks, and living with friends who work at banks down the road. I would imagine the US startup scene feels much more like a microcosm, and because we are yet to have that level of separation in culture and circles we socialise in, the difference in lifestyle a salary gives you is a lot more noticeable.

I regret not adapting this mentality from the start, and when we hire our first employee, I will certainly make sure the reason they are taking the job is not the millions they are guaranteed to make in a few years' time.
>I didn't know Kickstarter was a non-profit organization, I didn't find it on their website, would you mind pointing it to me?

I meant that was how I read the OP site. Seems like it's not true, in which case I don't understand what the site is actually saying about kickstarter.

>For Groupon, for me a profit is making more money than you spend and as you said they keep 50% of each deal but then they have to spend money to pay everything and also need a lot of advertisement. Therefore afaik they have no actual profit, which would mean returning money to the investors.

What I meant was I believe they're operating at a profit, but their stock price is collapsing because it was buoyed up by expectations of growth that hasn't materialized. So investors have lost a lot of money, even though the company's income exceeds its expenditure.
I think it becomes extra-silly when you think about how easy it is to circumvent most people's additions.

I get phone call solicitations, I think from posting my phone number on Craigslist. I thought about obscuring it, and then started thinking about how most of them are so easy to decode--so I tried it for fun. Filter parentheses, whitespace, change "six" to 6, etc. See if you end up with ten digits.

Phone numbers are easier than email addresses, but I was able to scrape 95%+ of them properly, and would have gotten higher with any real effort.

I'd post the code if I could find it. It was trivial.
Sometimes I wonder if the reason Musk has worked so hard/had so much success with spacex is just because he wants to return to his home planet.
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China= 1.25 Billion

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The use of race as a proxy for uniform genetic variation is silly. It follows (awkwardly) you cannot reject the hypothesis that genetics are determinate, by rejecting analysis on race-based data. But that is only the tip of the iceberg of problems here.

There is a logical problem and a data problem. The data problem is that race is not a proxy for genetic variation, per-se (mixed data). The logic problem is that rejecting race as a hypothetical causal relationship does not reject genetic variable (by proxy, since proxy=false). Furtermore, rejecting the alternative hypothesis (ie, genetics) does not default to a single variable solution (ie Envronment or Genetics is origin). You cannot reject the hypothesis that they BOTH are important. Logically, they are not binary, per observation.

The takeaway is that the headline is a problem. Reducing Environment to a one of many simultaneous causal factors trivializes it.

Rejecting genetic determinants as having significant explanatory power is counter-thetical to Evolution. This is an orthogonal point, but its important. The Environment being "origin" implies that mate selection is irrelevant to inherited/expressed/realized intelligence. Which is clearly false. As a observed or as a logical matter.

Think of a car engine. Every manufacturer will have defects (manufacturing tolerances). And poor maintenance will cause every engine to eventually fail (ie, dont change the oil). So, (1) design is not determinate of performance fully; and (2) environment can determine ultimate success/failure. It does not follow that all egines have the same layout for internal cumbustion. Nor does it follow that when working at full capacity/optimim tune they will have the same power output. Nor can we conclude anything about the suspension or the chassis performance, etc. But nor does it follow that ultimate performance (of the complex system) cannot still be competitive (at least in certain environments, etc). Cars of various design are competitive at road-rally, for example.

While genetics is certainly not 100% explanatory, it simply is and must be a component in the "origin of intelligence". Unless you are a crazy-tea-party-sceptic-of-evolution.[sic]. So, this is problem for the intelligensia/left if they want to divorce inherited/genetics from the disucussion.

The problem is the level of abstaction. We know genetics matters by species. We know genetics matters by (nuclear) family. What are the in-between levels (if any) that also matter? That is where things get murky and messy (politically, logically, and otherwise). At some stage, this might also be analysed of as a question of entropy. ie, if two smart people get married and their kids are x/n likelt to be smart, at what stage in replication do they revert to x/n= population average. If ever? What if their is persistent top-quartile genetic pairings (ie, adding selective-diversity, etc). What if their is a random sample from the population? Are the two vcases the same or different? how do you tell/test? etc.

None of which should give cover for thinking without due clarity, however.
What model was it?

Lenovo is known above all else for the durability of its hardware, so I'm surprised by this account. Perhaps you were simply unfortunate with the specific laptop you chose - no product line is 100% perfect, after all.

(I'm also aware that it's possible you're just trolling.)
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Php is a scripting language specifically designed for web development. Hence, not fit to be in a head to head comparison with a general purpose programming language.

Thus the comparison is held at that level (web), comparing php with a web framework. If that wouldn't make any sense, then it does make sense to compare php with C++ or Java (which it doesn't).
After all, you can write a website in C++.

Putting that aside, your viewpoint is hilarious as well. I find it amusing how you call the issue you linked at, a core rails bug when your knowledge of rails doesn't qualify for such a statement.

It wasn't a bug. If you are a rails developer, have indeed read the issue and replies or at least read the title well enough, you would have concluded that it was a bad coding practice.

The security measure to prevent such mass attribute assignment "was" present for developer's to utilize.
It's a single line of code, but some lazy asses wanted that auto-generated/forced/opt-out instead of opt-in.

It's a good practice, an advised practice, a recommended practice to write that single line of code. The fact that a mass majority of rails developers didn't write it, or ignored this warning doesn't mean it's a "core rails bug".

No, the ruby/rails community is not as large as Php.

Yes, the php community has an awkward tendency to write "below" the par software while charging for it.

Any experienced php developer will confirm this sad fact and will probably blame the language for it

(Php "is" flawed on so many levels: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-de...)